Barry Keoghan On His ‘Bird’ Musical Number In The Wake Of That ‘Saltburn’ Ending: “I Don’t Think I Can Dance, I’m A Bad Dancer” – Cannes

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After prancing through the hallways showing his man-ness at the end of Saltburn last year, Barry Keoghan is back with a another illustrious ditty performance in Bird.

In the Andrea Arnold movie that had its world premiere Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, Keoghan plays a young father, and at one moment he croons an off-key version of Blur’s “The Universal” in what is a sweet moment with dance involved.

For the actor, music is part of the full commitment to the roles he plays. “I don’t think I can dance. I’m a bad dancer,” the Oscar-nominated actor confessed during a post-premiere press conference in Cannes on Friday. “I think the beauty of dancing on screen is the effort to try.” ‘Bird’ director Andrea Arnold and stars Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski arrive at the #CannesFilmFestival press conference pic.twitter.com/1aKI80MeBM “Music plays a big part in everything I do, I know Andrea is hooked on music as well,” he said at the Cannes presser for the film.

The filmmaker surrounding Keoghan with a playlist. Arnold’s latest follows Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who lives with her brother Hunter (Jason Buda) and his father Bug (Keoghan), who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent.